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Mork & Mindy, Facts Of Life To HUB

Mork has not aged well and the show is kinda dull in 2012.

Facts are ok, if they give them a decent time slot.

Sabrina makes me wanna barf.

But at least they're trying something, which is more than most networks are doing.
 
Facts was never my favorite but I would still probably watch once in a while given the lack of 80's shows on networks like Me and Antenna.
 
So they are putting on shows that were on Me-TV years ago in Chicago :)

"Facts" is good, till they left high school. Then the quality kind of varied.

"Mork" was a great example of how to ruin a show. The second year changes ruined it.

I never really cared for Sabrina, but I did love Melissa in "Clarissa," the girl has talent.
 
Facts lasted an awful long time for any television program of it's time, so it sure proved itself well.
Reruns are great, but you never know what year you'll get.
Too much difference from one season to the next.
Especially if you're a fan of Molly (first season) or George Clooney in the later seasons.
It will be interesting to see which season they offer...right from the begining or a dive right into the last season.
 
Sabrina is okay although I liked the ABC seasons better not The WB. I never watched Facts Of Life ever so well see. They should have picked up Step By Step and Small Wonder better choices.
 
wdb2003 said:
Sabrina is okay although I liked the ABC seasons better not The WB. I never watched Facts Of Life ever so well see. They should have picked up Step By Step and Small Wonder better choices.
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I'll never get the fascination with Small Wonder. It was an awful show the first time around.

Mork & Mindy had a brief run on our cheapo indie station a few years back and I agree that it has not held up well at all. I'm amazed at how Pam Dawber could keep herself together with Robin Williams spinning off in a cocaine fueled frenzy with every take. She was cute as hell though. However, the show itself quickly became disjointed and manic much like Robin Williams' appearances on Carson and Letterman. Exit the Dad and Grandma (for which the show had somewhat of a base)... next enter Tom Poston as the crotchety neighbor and New YAWWK's Jay Thomas as a deli owner... then exit Poston for what I believe to be the biggest troll upon all Robin Williams fans, enter Jonathan Winters for whom Robin had been mimicking the entire time.

I figured it out a long time ago and my friends hate it when I say it because they've heard it so many times but are unable to refute it; Whenever a subject of Robin Williams comes up I always say, "I liked Robin Williams the first time around, when he was called Jonathan Winters."
 
Mork and Mindy was like a "jump the shark" episode of Happy Days that just went
on and on and on (though I agree, Pam Dawber was certainly easy on the eyes).

Even the promos for Small Wonder made me gag.
 
wdb2003 said:
Sabrina is okay although I liked the ABC seasons better not The WB. I never watched Facts Of Life ever so well see. They should have picked up Step By Step and Small Wonder better choices.
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I enjoyed "Facts of Life" but didn't reall know any better. I do agree about "Sabrina", but writing the network to complain and being told to use their web site to do that resulted in my spending nine years on two network message boards, plus the past several month on a ProBoards creation for those of us left out in the cold when The CW decided to use Facebook and Twitter instead.
 
gregg75 said:
Mork has not aged well and the show is kinda dull in 2012.
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I haven't seen it in years, but Robin Williams was brilliant. I suppose if he's not doing something outrageous the show is dull. I did see the TV-movie about the show a few years ago, and the scenes with the show itself were atrocious. The man playing Robin was about as good as could be expected. No one can truly capture HIM but he gave it a real effort.
 
'Facts of Life' should have been paired with 'Diff'rent Strokes' (meaning The Hub should have added that series as well)
the same way, 'Happy Days' goes with 'Laverne & Shirley', and '227' with 'Amen'. Of course, those shows are less paired together now.

And, since that is not happening, will any current classic show on The Hub be dropped to fit 'Facts of Life'? I wonder if TV Land will still get the credit. During the TV Land awards, the Facts cast claimed TV Land reruns were keeping awareness of the show. I don't remember if TV Land ever gave much in air time to the series over TV Land's history.
 
What was played with "Facts of Life" in its original run? I think "Silver Spoons" was played before or after it? What else?

My thing with Robin Williams is he is OK in small doses.
 
No, Mark, I believe it was indeed "Diff'rent Strokes" as Ding12 alludes to above. Both shows had the same syndicator (Embassy/Columbia/Sony). They both aired back-to-back on WNEW/WNYW-5 in New York back in the day...
 
If I remember correctly, Diff'rent Strokes went into off-network syndication in the fall of 1985, as just it changed networks (NBC to ABC); Facts of Life reruns became available the following year.

In some markets, they were paired together (like in New York City), but in others, they were on different stations (ex: Los Angeles, Diff'rent Strokes on KCOP [and then later on KCAL] and Facts of Life on KTTV; Chicago, Facts of Life on WGN, Diff'rent Strokes on WFLD [I believe it switched stations later, to either WPWR or WGBO, and eventually to WCIU]).
 
DToTheJ said:
No, Mark, I believe it was indeed "Diff'rent Strokes" as Ding12 alludes to above. Both shows had the same syndicator (Embassy/Columbia/Sony). They both aired back-to-back on WNEW/WNYW-5 in New York back in the day...
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You're correct about that, I was thinking about what shows "Facts" was paired with during it's original run on NBC. I know for part of the time, it was on at 7pm and "Silver Spoons" was 7:30pm
 
Although I don't have the ratings data to back it up, from what I've read over the years, "The Facts of Life" was a bomb out of the gate and only was renewed (with the cast reduction) because of NBC's abysmal state at the time. (Gee, sound familiar?) I don't think it ever was a ratings blockbuster, but it did seem to get OK numbers as time went on. Regardless, nine seasons is pretty impressive for any series!
 
"Tootie, it's 8:29! Now either try that beer or dump it down the sink! Wait! Oh! Now, I have to wait a whole week to find out what happens next!" ;D
 
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